A classy hotel restaurant, Firdaus offers great Hyderabadi (and also North Indian) dishes to the strains of live ghazals (classical Urdu love songs, accompanied by harmonium and tabla). They even serve haleem outside Ramadan and superb meat dishes – try the raan-e-firdaus (pot roasted lamb).
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